Health in antiquity
By: edited by Helen King.
Contributors: King, Helen, 1957-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Medicine, Greek and Roman.; Diseases and history.; Greek World.; History of Medicine, Ancient.; Roman World.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Disease and the prehistory of the Aegean / Robert Arnott; title: Health and disease in Greece: past, present and future / Charlotte Roberts ... [et al.]; title: Health in Hellenistic and Roman times: the case studies of Paphos, Cyprus and Corinth, Greece / Sherry C. Fox; title: Health and the life course at Herculaneum and Pompeii / Ray Laurence; title: Holding on to health?: bone surgery and instrumentation in the Roman Empire / Ralph Jackson; title: 'Without you no one is happy': the cult of health in ancient Greece / Emma Stafford; title: Hygieia at dinner and at the symposium / John Wilkins; title: Women's health and recovery in the Hippocratic corpus / Helen King; title: Drama and healing: ancient and modern / Karelisa Hartigan; title: 'Curing' disability / Nicholas Vlahogiannis; title: The salubriousness of the Roman city / Neville Morley; title: Buildings for health: then and now / Peter Barefoot; title: The health of the spiritual athlete / Gillian Clark; title: 'Carrying on the work of the earlier firm': doctors, medicine and Christianity in the Thaumata of Sophronius of Jerusalem / Dominic Montserrat.